People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Paul von Hindenburg Paul von Hindenburg German field marshal in World War I and president of the Weimar Republic
- Hermann von Eichhorn Hermann von Eichhorn German field marshal who governed occupied Ukraine in 1918 and was assassinated in Kiev by a Left SR
- Ferdinand Foch Ferdinand Foch French marshal who as Allied supreme commander in 1918 led the counter-offensive and dictated the armistice
- Philippe Pétain Philippe Pétain A marshal whose Verdun prestige ended in Vichy collaboration
- Junaid Khan Jüneýit han Yomut Turkmen chief who held real power in the Khanate of Khiva in 1918–1920 and fought Soviet rule for more than a decade
- Najmuddin Gotsinsky Нажмудин Гоцинский Avar religious leader and mufti of the North Caucasus who led anti-Bolshevik uprisings in Dagestan and Chechnya in 1918–1925
- Reginald Dyer Reginald Dyer British Indian Army officer who ordered troops to fire on an unarmed crowd at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar in 1919
- Andranik Ozanian Անդրանիկ Օզանյան Armenian fedayi commander who rejected the Republic of Armenia and held Zangezur with his own division
- Erich Ludendorff Erich Ludendorff General who directed Germany’s war with Hindenburg and later joined Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch
- William S. Graves William Sidney Graves General who led the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia in 1918–1920 and kept it strictly neutral in the Russian Civil War
- Lionel Dunsterville Lionel Charles Dunsterville British general who led Dunsterforce across Persia to defend Baku in 1918
- Rüdiger von der Goltz Rüdiger von der Goltz Freikorps commander who tried to keep Germany's eastern influence in Finland and the Baltic
- Lucjan Żeligowski Lucjan Żeligowski Polish general who seized Vilnius in a staged 'mutiny' and set up Central Lithuania
- Wilhelm Groener Wilhelm Groener General who struck the 1918 secret pact with Ebert that preserved the officer corps and later served Weimar as defence and interior minister
- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Aristocratic soldier who rose from Russian Imperial lieutenant general to Marshal of Finland, facing the Soviet Union in two wars
- Maxime Weygand Maxime Weygand From Foch's brilliant staff officer to a general of defeat and accommodation
- Gustav Noske Gustav Noske SPD defence minister who said “someone has to be the bloodhound” and used the Freikorps to crush the left risings of 1919
- Kantaro Suzuki 鈴木貫太郎 The admiral-prime minister who steered Japan toward surrender
- Max Hoffmann Max Hoffmann German Eastern Front chief of staff who placed his soldier's boot on the Brest-Litovsk negotiating table
- Jan Smuts Jan Christian Smuts Soldier-statesman who was twice prime minister of the Union of South Africa and went to Budapest as the Entente’s envoy in April 1919
- Pietro Badoglio Pietro Badoglio A marshal who served Fascism before steering Italy's turn
- Maurice Gamelin Maurice Gamelin A commander-in-chief caught between defensive doctrine and forward deployment
- Joseph August Joseph August von Österreich Habsburg archduke and last field marshal of the Austro-Hungarian army who briefly declared himself regent of Hungary in August 1919
- Pál Prónay Prónay Pál Counter-revolutionary paramilitary commander who led the most brutal officer detachment of the Hungarian White Terror of 1919–1921
- Jenő Landler Landler Jenő Labour lawyer turned Communist who was interior commissar and a Red Army commander in the Hungarian Soviet Republic
- William D. Leahy William D. Leahy The five-star chief of staff who warned Roosevelt the Yalta Poland deal was 'so elastic' it could stretch from Yalta to Washington
- Fernand Vix Fernand Vix French officer who headed the Entente military mission in Budapest and delivered the Vix note in March 1919
- Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb Wilhelm Josef Franz Ritter von Leeb Wehrmacht field marshal who directed the encirclement of Leningrad
- Erich Raeder Erich Raeder A Nazi German naval commander who pursued a grand surface fleet
- Antal Lehár Lehár Antal Legitimist general who led counter-revolutionary troops in western Hungary and joined both of King Charles’s return attempts in 1921
- Sadao Araki 荒木貞夫 A militarist leader of Japan's Imperial Way faction
- Pavel Bermondt-Avalov Павел Бермондт-Авалов Commander of the West Russian Volunteer Army who led German Freikorps against Riga
- Aurél Stromfeld Stromfeld Aurél Professional officer who as chief of staff of the Hungarian Red Army directed the northern campaign of 1919
- William N. Haskell William N. Haskell An international relief commander amid famine
- Robert Touchon Robert Touchon A French general whose 1940 command exposed the tension between mountain-war expertise and an old command system
- Symon Vasyliovych Petliura Симон Васильович Петлюра Ukrainian independence leader who headed the People's Republic but whose role in pogroms remains fiercely contested
- Charles Delestraint Charles Delestraint A tank-war innovator who became the Secret Army's first commander
- Vittorio Ambrosio Vittorio Ambrosio The general who sought an Italian exit from the Axis under the monarchy
- Eero Haapalainen Eero Haapalainen Trade union leader who commanded the Finnish Red Guards from January to March 1918
- Charles Huntziger Charles Huntziger A general who embodied the military case for defeat and armistice
- Aimé Doumenc Joseph Édouard Aimé Doumenc Logistics, armor and the 1939 Moscow mission
- Vilmos Böhm Böhm Vilmos Social Democratic leader who was defence commissar and Red Army commander-in-chief of the Hungarian Soviet Republic
- George C. Catlett Marshall George C. Marshall The only American to head the Army, the State Department, and the Pentagon, organizer of Allied victory and architect of the Marshall Plan
- Reginald Drax Reginald Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax A naval reformer sent to negotiate without authority
- Waldemar Pabst Waldemar Pabst Freikorps officer who ordered the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in January 1919 and joined the Kapp Putsch
- Enver Pasha İsmail Enver Paşa War minister among the Three Pashas who took the Ottomans into the war and was a main perpetrator of the Armenian genocide
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Gallipoli commander who led the national movement and founded the Republic of Turkey as its first president
- Władysław Sikorski Władysław Sikorski A general who defended Polish sovereignty between exile and return
- Henrik Werth Werth Henrik Chief of the Hungarian General Staff who was the strongest advocate of alliance with Germany and of war on the Soviet Union
- Maximilian von Weichs Maximilian von Weichs German field marshal who commanded the Stalingrad offensive